[Liam Fay]

While there are many positives to the district system that I do not need to mention more than has already been done so in this thread, I can see a few issues arise:

The San Diego and Los Angeles regionals host a non-zero number of international teams from Chile and Mexico for whom those events are their second regionals. While the district system may help to strengthen FIRST in CA, it could very well be at the cost of weakening FIRST globally.

Second, we can't completely disregard how much that regional-level ambience matters to some people. For teams that will not make it to Champs, it's not worth it to have a regional that is all about just being a stepping stone that doesn't matter as much as later events. If these teams can't go to Champs, all they're left with is that middle of the road.